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# Marketplace — P2P, 0% fees

## The deal

List cards from your collection, get discovered, negotiate in chat, agree — then close the trade **however you two prefer**: in person, shipped, bank transfer, cash. **Magpie never processes the payment and never takes a cut.** 0% is not a launch promo; it's the design.

Why: the big marketplaces take 5–13%+ and the community routes around them in Discord/WhatsApp anyway — with zero structure. Magpie gives that behaviour structure (listings, offers, swap proposals, deal tracking, reputation) without inserting itself into the money.

## How a deal works

1. **Listing**: from an owned instance, with price (or price range) and quantity. Listing edits that change condition/printing only affect the copies actually listed.
2. **Offers & swaps**: money offers (with counter-offers) or card-for-card swap proposals, inside a per-user chat thread.
3. **Deal**: acceptance opens a pending deal; the seller confirms, cards move to *incoming* on the buyer's side; the receiver confirms receipt and the deal completes. Quantities are validated at confirmation — a stale listing fails loudly instead of short-shipping.
4. **Trust**: profiles, deal history, blocks and reports. Read the honesty note below.

## The honesty note (read this once)

Because Magpie doesn't hold the money, **it cannot enforce anything**. The reputation system informs your judgment; it does not replace it. Meet in public places, use tracked shipping and payment methods with recourse for distance deals, and treat a too-good price as the red flag it is. Every confirmed money deal also (anonymously) feeds the oracle's realized-price data — your trades make everyone's prices better.


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